Getting Practical About The Public Interest

Author : Tom Frame
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1925826783

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GETTING PRACTICAL about the Public Interest by Tom Frame Pdf

How is the public interest best served? It is one thing to define the public interest... it is another to pursue the interests of the public. Given the problems associated with abstract definitions, this collection of essays explores individual approaches to acting in the public interest and examines institutional strategies for advancing the public interest. The contributors consider the practical dimensions of promoting and protecting the public interest in diverse settings ranging from policing to planning, and national defence to resource allocation. While the main focus is executive decision-making, they critique the processes and procedures that have been used to identify the public interest in the midst of personal hopes and private desires, political priorities and commercial aspirations. Drawing on their experience and expertise, the contributors have tried to show where the public interest began as a guiding administrative principle that became an effective practical tool.

Author : Gerald Andrews Emison
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483370941

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Practical Program Evaluations by Gerald Andrews Emison Pdf

Program evaluation requires attention to rationality, rigor, and careful methods. Yet precision and accuracy alone do not guarantee that program evaluations will be implemented. What prevents an evaluation from being thrown on a shelf to gather dust? Author Gerald Emison, a practitioner with more than 20 years experience, knows that the consumers of program evaluations operate in a decidedly practical and political arena where decision making is a very human and sometimes messy process. Getting students from ideas to outcomes means that knowing clients’ needs and effectively communicating results are just as crucial as an evaluator’s theoretical knowledge and statistical analysis. Emison wants to help students translate their mastery of methodology into useable program evaluations that are implemented and affect actual programs. Short and to-the-point, Practical Program Evaluations hones in on the applied side of program evaluation, with the goal of creating and presenting program evaluations that are used and improve public enterprises. A handy supplement to core texts, Emison offers honest advice, emphasizing practices that focus on the client, content, control and communication of program evaluations.

Author : Howard Whitton
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015062439727

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Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Sector by Howard Whitton Pdf

Conflicts of interest in both the public and private sectors have become a major matter of public concern world-wide. The OECD Guidelines define a conflict of interest as occurring when a public official has private-capacity interests which could improperly influence the performance of their official duties and responsibilities. However, identifying a specific conflict of interest in practice can be difficult. And resolving the conflicting interests appropriately in a particular case is something that most people find even more challenging. The Toolkit focuses on specific techniques, resources and strategies for: Identifying, managing and preventing conflict-of-interest situations more effectively; and Increasing integrity in official decision-making, which might be compromised by a conflict of interest. This Toolkit provides non-technical, practical help to enable officials to recognise problematic situations and help them to ensure that integrity and reputation are not compromised. The tools themselves are provided in generic form. They are based on examples of sound conflict-of-interest policy and practice drawn from various OECD member and non-member countries. They have been designed for adaptation to suit countries with different legal and administrative systems. FURTHER READING: Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Service: OECD Guidelines and Country Experiences

Author : Barry Bozeman
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1589014014

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Public Values and Public Interest by Barry Bozeman Pdf

Economic individualism and market-based values dominate today's policymaking and public management circles—often at the expense of the common good. In his new book, Barry Bozeman demonstrates the continuing need for public interest theory in government. Public Values and Public Interest offers a direct theoretical challenge to the "utility of economic individualism," the prevailing political theory in the western world. The book's arguments are steeped in a practical and practicable theory that advances public interest as a viable and important measure in any analysis of policy or public administration. According to Bozeman, public interest theory offers a dynamic and flexible approach that easily adapts to changing situations and balances today's market-driven attitudes with the concepts of common good advocated by Aristotle, Saint Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, and John Dewey. In constructing the case for adopting a new governmental paradigm based on what he terms "managing publicness," Bozeman demonstrates why economic indices alone fail to adequately value social choice in many cases. He explores the implications of privatization of a wide array of governmental services—among them Social Security, defense, prisons, and water supplies. Bozeman constructs analyses from both perspectives in an extended study of genetically modified crops to compare the policy outcomes using different core values and questions the public value of engaging in the practice solely for the sake of cheaper food. Thoughtful, challenging, and timely, Public Values and Public Interest shows how the quest for fairness can once again play a full part in public policy debates and public administration.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Consolidation of land holdings
ISBN : LOC:00125313978

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Consolidation of Railroad Properties by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce Pdf

Author : G. Bruce Doern,Jeffrey S. Kinder,Jeff Kinder
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780802088536

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Strategic Science in the Public Interest by G. Bruce Doern,Jeffrey S. Kinder,Jeff Kinder Pdf

The past twenty years have seen considerable shifts and struggles in government science that is, in the way the state funds, supports, regulates, conducts and uses scientific and technological activity. Focusing on federal labs and agencies, Strategic Science in the Public Interest explores how these labs have been located within, and often buried by, the larger commercially-focussed federal innovation agenda. G. Bruce Doern and Jeffrey S. Kinder examine four labs whose mandates deal with the Alberta oil sands, environmental technologies, wildlife research, and mining and metals, respectively. The authors use these cases to explain why a better middle-level approach to analysis is needed for strategic public interest-centred government science. They illustrate the importance of understanding the variety, as well as the similarity, of federal science and technology labs and agencies, and of instituting policies that reflect this diversity. The growing importance of Related Science Activities (RSA) is also explored, as well as the core trade-offs between commercial and public goods science in their mandates and their internal capacities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Consumer protection
ISBN : OSU:32437010769053

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Clearinghouse Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. Huffman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781137376725

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Private Property and State Power by J. Huffman Pdf

This book details the relationship between private property and government. As private property is important to both individual welfare and the public interest, the book provides an intellectual framework for the analysis and resolution of contemporary property rights disputes.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on Regulators
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0104011645

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UK economic regulators by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on Regulators Pdf

As a result of the privatisation of many nationalised industries in the 1980s, independent sector-specific regulatory offices were established to regulate these industries to promote genuine competition and ensure companies did not exploit monopoly powers. Examples of these regulatory offices include Oftel (telecommunications), Ofgas (gas supply), Offer, (electricity), Ofwat (water services) and Postcomm (postal services). Other regulatory offices with slightly different regulatory remits include the Civil Aviation Authority, the Financial Services Authority, the Pensions Regulator, the Competition Commission and the Office of Fair Trading. The Committee's report examines the statutory remits of the UK economic regulators, their working methods and working relationships, the value for money they provide and the extent to which the regulators have successfully promoted competition and de-regulated where possible, as well as considering whether they should be given an additional statutory duty to facilitate the competitiveness of UK firms. Overall, the Committee concludes that the legislation is working well, but that a greater standardisation of remits should be introduced over time to ensure all regulators are statutorily required to follow best practice. In most sectors, regulators have played an important role in helping to promote competition, with the exception of the water industry. The report explores possible reasons for the lack of competition in this sector, and urges Ofwat to take account of the general comments made by the Competition Appeal Tribunal on its access regime. It highlights the need for greater parliamentary oversight over regulatory bodies and recommends that a Joint Committee of both Houses be set up, or failing this, that a sessional Select Committee be established in the House of Lords.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2070 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D021967642

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Reports and Documents by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electric utilities
ISBN : LOC:0018542182A

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Amendments to Public Utility Holding Company Act, 1935 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Considers legislation to exempt electric utilities involved in nuclear power development from SEC regulations.

Author : Jerry L. Mashaw
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 0300078706

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Greed, Chaos, and Governance by Jerry L. Mashaw Pdf

Public choice theory should be taken seriously--but not too seriously. In this thought-provoking book, Jerry Mashaw stakes out a middle ground between those who champion public choice theory (the application of the conventional methodology of economics to political science matters, also known as rational choice theory) and those who disparage it. He argues that in many cases public choice theory's reach has exceeded its grasp. In others, public choice insights have not been pursued far enough by those who are concerned with the operation and improvement of legal institutions. While Mashaw addresses perennial questions of constitutional law, legislative interpretation, administrative law, and the design of public institutions, he arrives at innovative conclusions. Countering the positions of key public choice theorists, Mashaw finds public choice approaches virtually useless as an aid to the interpretation of statutes, and he finds public choice arguments against delegating political decisions to administrators incoherent. But, using the tools of public choice analysts, he reverses the lawyers' conventional wisdom by arguing that substantive rationality review is not only legitimate but a lesser invasion of legislative prerogatives than much judicial interpretation of statutes. And, criticizing three decades of "law reform," Mashaw contends that pre-enforcement judicial review of agency rules has seriously undermined both governmental capacity and the rule of law.

Author : K. Morrell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137026880

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Organization, Society and Politics by K. Morrell Pdf

This thought-provoking book will appeal to both specialists and newcomers to Aristotle. Specialists will welcome the attention to original texts that underpin many of our ideas on politics, business studies, and other social sciences, whilst newcomers will appreciate the lucid summaries and applications that make Aristotle fascinatingly accessible.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1402 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : UCAL:B3557180

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy Pdf

Author : Brian J. Cook
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421415536

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Bureaucracy and Self-Government by Brian J. Cook Pdf

A thorough update to this well-regarded political history of American public administration. In this new edition of his provocative book Bureaucracy and Self-Government, Brian J. Cook reconsiders his thesis regarding the inescapable tension between the ideal of self-government and the reality of administratively centered governance. Revisiting his historical exploration of competing conceptions of politics, government, and public administration, Cook offers a novel way of thinking constitutionally about public administration that transcends debates about “big government.” Cook enriches his historical analysis with new scholarship and extends that analysis to the present, taking account of significant developments since the mid-1990s. Each chapter has been updated, and two new chapters sharpen Cook’s argument for recognizing a constitutive dimension in normative theorizing about public administration. The second edition also includes reviews of Jeffersonian impacts on administrative theory and practice and Jacksonian developments in national administrative structures and functions, a look at the administrative theorizing that presaged progressive reforms in civil service, and insight into the confounding complexities that characterize public thinking about administration in a postmodern political order.